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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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  • Genre: Folk Rock / Fusion / Progressive

    Location Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sw

    Profile Views: 125019

    Last Login: 5/17/2012

    Member Since 12/14/2006

    Website www.kaipa.info

    Record Label Inside Out Music

    Type of Label Major

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KAIPA IS BACK WITH THEIR 10TH STUDIO ALBUM ”IN THE WAKE OF EVOLUTION”

The band continues the time-honoured Kaipa tradition but as always they’re simultaneously looking for new challenges hiding by the roadside. The new album is an emotional and powerful blast straight into the future powered by fragile fragments from memory lane.

Kaipa underline its unambiguous folk influences and incorporate it in the music in an own personal and natural way with the addition of the eminent guest-musicians Fredrik Lindqvist (recorders) and Elin Rubinsztein (violin)

“In the wake of evolution” picks up where “Angling feelings” left off and invites you to another breathtaking journey through the myriad and dazzling Kaipa landscape.
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This is most definitely the best release in the progressive genre this year. The eight songs featured on In The Wake Of Evolution are of a unseen quality and are just simply sublime. Highlight on the album is of course the almost eighteen minute lasting song Electric Power Water Notes which takes you on a trip through the folky progressive Kaipa landscape.

If you are a prog lover, just go out and buy this album without hesitation. Eight extremely strong compositions, beautiful melodies and yet unmistakably Kaipa. It will be very difficult for any band in the genre to release a stronger sounding album than this one.

10/10 Furyrocks

I think most prog fans would travel great distances barefoot over stony ground to hear music like this and there are many, many bands I can think of who would doubtless give their eye teeth to create something as lavish and sumptuous as In The Wake... The album opener (and title track) alone is worth the cost of purchase. It's jaw-dropping, eyes full of wonder, joyous listening. It gambols into life through a bouncing, trilling overture in 11/8, a time signature that declaims, "Oh, this must be prog!" This comes to an abrupt halt and Aleena begins the heartfelt and impassioned vocal, a melody I cannot get out of my head. Each verse has its own cadence that develops via the accumulation of doleful strings, weeping in descending arcs then a chopping and funky clavichord that lifts the melody out of the doldrums in a way that makes me want to applaud as the track ascends into its closing theme using melodies and harmonies that recall Fragile-era Yes with Jon Anderson and Chris Squire at their best. Structurally and musically this is extremely clever stuff, the leitmotif of the "overture" is twisted, tilted, deconstructed and remixed in four different ways, at least. The musicianship is stellar. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
9/10 DPRP

"Arcs of Sound" and "Electric Power Water Notes" & "Smoke From a Secret Source" round out the record's grass rooted art-rock approach with mind-bending improvisations and insane time signatures/key changes, again further exposing the band's strengths upon musicianship and melody.

In Wake of the Evolution is another tried and true testament to classic progressive rock with a modern flare - still knowing no boundaries when pressing on with their compositional approach and showing that the headroom is unlimited when it comes to executing an impressive musical mindset.

4,5/5 Ytsejam.com

Long songs on the album full sparkling prog rock; melodic, contemporary and washed in a superb sound. Listen to that "Electric Power Water Notes", with almost eighteen minutes the longest piece, uncovering beautiful secrets. But also the short and folky "Folkia's First Decision" and the varied "The Seven Oceans Of Our Mind", what a musical enjoyment. This is Kaipa's best album, hands down. Sincere compliments to our European neighbours from the north

95/100 Lordsofmetal

Read the latest reviews at Kaipa's homepage

History

KAIPA is a musical project formed by keyboard player Hans Lundin. It also includes Per Nilsson, guitar (Scar Symmetry), Jonas Reingold, bass (Flower Kings/Karmakanic), Morgan Ågren, drums (Mats & Morgan/Zappa), Patrik Lundström, vocal (Ritual) & Aleena Gibson, vocal. Surrounded by these extremely talented musicians Hans is able to give his melodic and complex songs a performance showing a vital, unique and personal sound.

Hans Lundin originally formed Kaipa in 1973 and their debut album was released in 1975. The first version of Kaipa (1973-1982) recorded five albums and became the leading Scandinavian progressive rock band. In 2000 Hans reformed the band and invited original Kaipa guitar player Roine Stolt to participate in the recording of the come back album “Notes from the past” together with Morgan Ågren, Jonas Reingold, Patrik Lundström and Aleena Gibson. This line-up recorded two more remarkable albums “Keyholder” 2003 and “Mindrevolutions” 2005. A five CD-Box “The Decca Years 1975-1978” containing remastered versions of the three first Kaipa albums from the 70’s and two CD’s with previous unreleased material was released in 2005 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Kaipa album.

“Angling feelings” 2007 was the first Kaipa album with new guitar player Per Nilsson. Kaipa’s mastermind and keyboard player Hans Lundin and Per are old friends and worked together recording the album “Hagen: Corridors of time” in the late 90’s. Per is nowadays mostly famous as the lead guitar player in Swedish metal band Scar Symmetry.

Kaipa definitely proves that they are one of the leading outfits in today’s world of innovative and progressive music. They are not afraid of plunging into new areas while they still carry their glorious traditions with pride into a new era.

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Reviews

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"Angling Feelings" is a very tight, modern sounding masterpiece with all the elements of light, shade, complexity and melody more than apparent and moreover, in abundance.

10/10 Usaprogmusic

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The album is a joyful and spiritual experience, packed with everything from poetic beauty to mindboggling instrumental extravaganza. It offers some of the grooviest and most successful 7/8 time signatures ever made in "The Fleeting Existence Of Time" and breathtaking beauty in "Path Of Humbleness," which must be among the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. "Angling Feelings" is Kaipa at their best and probably their best effort this decade. Sound, production, melody, harmony, groove, and everything you could possibly measure music by is simply spot on. It is a gift and a magic hug to all fans of music with a Progressive approach.

10/10 Metalexpress

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With superb musicianship, charming vocal harmonies and imaginative song craftwork, Kaipa has successfully incorporated sounds both old and new, building a bridge between the ‘70s and the ‘00s. Enchanting and electrifying, "Angling Feelings" represents both the overwhelming potential and the very best aspects of contemporary progressive rock.

Trademark of quality

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The musical scope of what can only be described as a stirring symphonic masterpiece is quite extraordinary, blending the classic influences of YES with an identity and direction all of their own. Highly recommended.

Classic Rock

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Expect the unexpected. Expect brilliant vocal harmonies and a catchy groove to just appear out of seemingly nowhere. Expect for the guitar solos to lift you and take you through both time and space. Expect for time to stand still as you gaze in wonder at all the amazing colors and imagery that is painted across your mind. Expect to hear something you haven't heard before. Expect to know that Kaipa is pure uninhibited progressive prowess at its peak. Expect to love this album as much as you loved the last one. They continue to amaze me and everyone else, even after 30 years.

Espudd

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The music of Kaipa is (still) not easy to describe, as it contains many different styles and angles. Prog rock, folk, jazz rock, improvisation, everything is in it. But the compositions are from an exceptionally high level, making the album solid as a rock. Kaipa is a band with a mind of it's own, with as yet an unusual sound, where it can rightly be said it is a top notch band, that most certainly let's the listener enjoy some pretty virtuoso music!

Prog-nose

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Overflows with creativity, pinwheeling from calliope keyboards one minute to melodies so painstakingly executed, one senses the musicians straddle a trapeze that could fail at any second. It never does. The familiar melts into something new, something Kaipa. Just how the cascading melodies, left -field time changes and lithe vocals cohere is a mystery. Yet the disparate elements somehow connect. The music isn't so much catchy as it is fascinating, akin to exploring a carnival with different adventures around every corner.

Electricbasement

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The music on this CD is so achingly beautiful and such a fulfilling experience you come away after listening in a better frame of mind then before. The song’s on the CD are paintings created with sound brushes, the rich textures and vibes that are present will delight your senses and refresh your well-being if you allow the music to work it’s spell.

Prog-4-You


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